The CBC’s Toronto broadcast centre will host an interesting panel Wednesday on the future of news. It’ll explore how technology — such as citizen journalism and Web 2.0 tools — can be used by the media to provide greater public service to citizens and communities.

Participants include:

• Andrew Keen, author, The Cult of the Amateur
• Leonard Brody, CEO, NowPublic.com
• Rahaf Harfoursh, Research Coordinator, “Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything”

There are only a handful of public seats available, so you may want to tune in online. It’ll be streamed live at cbc.ca/futureofnews (where a discussion forum is open now) and segments from the discussion will appear on CBC TV and CBC Radio.

Happens Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. Eastern time.

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	Digital Radio, Interactive TV, On-Demand TV	Posted at 5:38 am (16 Oct 2007)

People who watch CBC Newsworld on certain Bell Expressvu satellite receivers have a new option: The ability to scroll through headlines on-demand. The service, CBC News Plus, lets viewers get more detail on specific news and sports stories from a list of the latest headlines while watching the regular broadcast at the same time.
     I’ve got it and tried it. It works, but it’s not quite the “fully interactive experience” that a breathlessly excited Bell news release suggests. I mean yes, you can scroll through headlines and ‘click’ to read an abstract of the story. But that’s about it.
     It’s a nice enhancement but not Earth-shattering.

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	CBC Newsworld, Interactive TV	Posted at 3:40 pm (21 Nov 2006)